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flames out
verb
Third person singular of flame out
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FLAMES out, but smoke still rising.
It's a tennis cliche: Teenage prodigy bursts onto the scene, turns pro too early and flames out too soon.
When one's house is on fire, the immediate priority should be putting the flames out, not squabbling about the insurance.
Before she flames out, a homicidal wraith named Dee Storey explodes in blood rushes that are insanely entertaining.
When a car breaks, a computer fails or a toaster flames out, the manufacturer is often liable under the product warranty.
He yearns for excitement, and when flirty Kelly (Kristen Wiig) joins the company, then flames out and is fired, he is smitten.
"When you get the exhaust spitting flames out, it does seem like a Turner sunset in November," he enunciated in that uniquely fluting delivery that is straight out of Oscar Wilde.
It wasn't a big fire — someone heaped brush against the back wall and put a match to it, and someone else saw the smoke and put the flames out with a shovel.
If Bexxar totally flames out, Corixa might still get some money from IDEC, which it says is infringing upon a Bexxar patent.
While lots of people talk about "long term relationships", it's fundamentally true that the /bus/dev/ guys are paid in cash, and if my company flames out, it will at worst just disappoint them.
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